On September 5, 2020, Baker Books released my new two-book series on equipping biblical counselors for marriage counseling and for family counseling:
Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors Gospel-Centered Family Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors Marriage Counseling and Family Counseling Are Hard!
As an equipper of pastors and counselors, I hear all the time how intimidating marriage and family counseling are. Recently, an experienced pastor shared with me:
“Marriage counseling? I’m clueless. I feel like I’m standing in traffic on an expressway with cars going both ways, half of them the wrong way, most of them swerving out of control. I have no idea how to move from my good theology of marriage, to actually helping the troubled couple sitting in front of me.
Family counseling? Don’t even get me started on that. By the time family members get to me, they’re so angry that they aren’t listening to each other. And half the time, they don’t even want to listen to me!”
Here Are Your Step-by-Step Training Manuals
The contemporary Christian world churns out books—great books—on marriage and the family. Theory of marriage and
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